Energy does not get lost, but it doesn’t mean it all fits in one closed system.
The good thing about the First Law of Thermodynamics is that, when energy cannot get lost, we do not need to find it. We can start out our story of the material universe with the presence of energy even before there was matter. It was already there, folks! Stop looking. It never got lost.
- Yet something happens next and the human mind needs to take a leap here.
When thinking about energy never getting lost, we call that a closed system. In the closed system, energy can get transformed from one form into another while remaining in that same system. That is not that hard to understand. Yet we do not question whether that one closed system must be singular by itself, or not.
Envisioning two closed systems, where today many think there is just one overall closed system, is not that hard to imagine. Two closed systems are still closed from an overall perspective. No laws are broken to envision two closed systems in our universe.
The Big Whisper theory does just that. In this theory, there are always two realities discerned when examining any overall level. Take, for instance, the natural forces; they are envisioned as existing on two levels.
- The specific forces: strong nuclear force, weak nuclear force, electromagnetic force.
- The general force: gravitational force.
Having two realities of forces introduces gravity as the synergistic outcome of the other specific forces. Like gray being the outcome when mixing red, blue and yellow paint, gravity is then nothing more than the blending of the specific forces into an outcome distinct from the others. From three there are four, and one of them portrays some generic properties whereas the others remain specific throughout.
Or take the distribution of matter, something Gödel, perhaps still not appreciated enough, pointed out as having two paradoxical behaviors. At the local level (of planet and star), we can recognize that matter converges with other matter around, becoming a single mass. This behavior is seen ubiquitously in our material universe.
Yet at the universal level itself, we do not witness convergence but divergence (or at least non-convergent, non-related behavior). Where locally we see matter behave one way, universally we see matter behave another way. Two realities therefore, for one and the same matter, that are nothing alike.
The benefit of having two closed systems is that we can articulate ourselves better, be more refined, when talking about energy and matter.
Diving toward the atomic environment, we find a relatively simple outcome for the subatomic level: neutrons, protons, electrons, and further nothing else. Naturally, the story can be told in far more complex manners. Yet focusing on just these three parts existing at the same specific level and not finding much else, we can look for the two closed systems of energy.
- The neutrons and protons are found in the center of the atom, the nucleus. They seem to not have an issue being around each other and are literally central to our understanding of matter. They are self-based and do not become a combined larger unit. Let’s put them together in their own closed system.
- The electrons appear to be motivated by the center yet they do not reach it. They are vital to our understanding of matter, but are the frontiers of matter. They are not self-based, but proton-focused. Let’s put all electrons in their own closed system.
Because there are only three basic parts, the stories about them can remain simple. This is where a structural philosopher gets his (or her) fun. Here, the structure is doing the talking. Naturally, not too much can be said because one does not want to move too far away from reality. But scientists often forget to fill in the dots exactly where the fun is found. Science is not just repeating data; science is also understanding the mechanics that would have created the outcomes.
The neutron has a neutral charge, and a balance of some kind is therefore found with the neutron. Meanwhile, the proton has a positive charge. This is important information for the electron because the positive charge is neutralized by the negative charge of the electron. The pluses and minuses in our universe are fully in balance. The universe is electrically neutral.
The most logical conclusion is that the electrons are pulled in to compensate for the positive charge of the protons. This is important to construct a storyline.
We can place the creation of the proton before the reaction of the electron.
For the larger picture of our material universe (13.8+ billion years of age and counting), the reaction of the electron is pretty much instantaneous of course and of no real importance to the overall outcome. For the storyline, however, this is the good stuff. The proton is the original reason for the electron to have come out. That means that the proton and the neutron have their own story, while the electron provides the additional storyline.
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Okay, let’s move one level deeper with the neutrons and protons. This step is taken only to make both neutral and positive charges more understandable.
Both neutron and proton contain three quarks of two kinds. The neutron is made from 2 down quarks and 1 up, the proton from 2 up quarks and 1 down.
To tell a storyline (the fun part), one can envision the down part as the adult in the household keeping things down, and the up part is then the baby keeping the parents up.
Having two parents and a baby in a household (the neutron) is just about perfect. When the baby keeps one of the parents up, the other parent can keep everything else in the household down and the overall outcome is therefore neutral and neat. No one walking down the street where the Neutrons live will hear a peep coming out of this household.
Unfortunately, the one parent with two babies (the proton) is not provided that same kind of luck. When one of the babies is comforted by the parent, the other baby is not. The single parent can take turns, but overall one baby is going to keep this household up all night. The Protons are well known in their neighborhood. People talk about the Protons for obvious reasons.
That’s where the electron comes in to help out. Like a watchdog, a fourth part is found next to the three quarks of the proton to keep this household from falling apart. The dog was needed to keep the parts within bounds. Plus, and this is handy, it keeps nosy neighbors at a safe distance.
While that is the end of the story, one can notice that a dog is not human. Of the four parts, one part is not like the other three parts. Similarly, the electron is not from the same closed system.
What is perhaps interesting to tell to conclude this quick sketch is that the Protons can end up pulling the dog inside the house and become a Neutron family. Unfortunately, the Neutrons may see their dog escape the house, too.
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If neutron and proton are the actual members that make up matter, and when the electron is the addition, then where did the electron come from?
The only option is to have the electron come from its own system. And the only way to have the compensating electron come from its own system is if it is part of the original system.
That means that neutron and proton are the expelled parts from the original system.
The idea is that before there was any matter, there was indeed just one closed system of energy. However, since the arrival of matter, there are now two closed systems. The neutron and the proton are the addition, albeit from parts of the original energy.
How could the electrons have been able to compensate for all positive charges of the protons? The answer is quite simple, because the original closed system is far bigger than the secondary closed system of neutrons and protons. Add almost any amount of protons in the universe and the original closed system will still be able to compensate for the additional positive charge. That’s how much larger it would be, yet we only see the electrons and not the rest of the primary closed system.
Matter could not have come into being had all energy been involved in the transformation.
Not many scientists like to talk about this; it is definitively outside their comfort zone. But having all energy transform into matter would have made it a certainty that all returned to the original format in -say- 15 minutes tops. No system can hang out 100% by itself in transformed status for more than those suggested 15 minutes and then not return to its former status quo. Not possible.
This is like a musical needing an audience. If everyone in the audience, and everyone in the world outside the theater, started singing whenever they communicated with one another, then the fun of attending a musical would wear off in about an afternoon or two. Without an audience, the special circumstance we call a musical becomes normal, and this ‘normal’ circumstance would then get abandoned sooner rather than later. The theaters will not shown musicals any longer because there is then nothing special to show.
- This distinct structure of basing the material outcome on inherent diversity, albeit of the minimalist kind with just two closed systems, means that the beginning of the materialization process was not based on all behaving exactly the same, but rather have at least one component be special.
Our material universe is based on two realities, on two closed systems.
Newton would have liked the reason the Big Whisper theory proposes for the outward, divergent motion we see among matter at the universal level:
What goes in, must come out!
By envisioning an inward motion among energy, the end of the intact original closed system became a certainty. Inward motions that do not stop end up wreaking havoc among themselves. Not the entire setup gets destroyed. Just like winding up a toy until it breaks will not break every single part and aspect of the toy, the universal inward motion among original energy will also not have damaged all of the involved energy.
Notice that a toy wound up too much does not completely disintegrate to its atomic parts either. Only the damaged parts end up being affected to some extent to their nuclear levels. The toy may still function somewhat, but it won’t be like before.
Some of the energy got damaged and therefore expelled from the closed system to become neutrons and protons, then in their own, secondary closed system.
The damaged energy had been churned under extreme pressure into a quark soup first during the inward motion. When the resulting catapulting action had released enough of the built-up tension, the quarks were free to quickly align themselves with their neighboring quarks. None of them could return to how they existed originally — they had been damaged — but they were able to form new alliances among themselves. Neutrons and protons could get established, perhaps more like Picasso paintings, funny-looking, than perfect Michelangelo statures.
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There is no universal reality.
There are two realities, and they are found within outwardly-moving environments located in space like ‘islands of energy’ the sizes of galaxies. These islands are not connected to one another, except for the occasional bumping of one galaxy into another. But each island has two realities of matter: the neutrons and the protons in the secondary reality, and the electrons merely indicating a certain presence of the larger primary reality. Both realities are tied together forever on their self-based outbound journeys.
We call our ‘island of energy’ the Milky Way.
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